Kitchen Garden Forum

I have only used balsamic with fruit salads and green salads, I'm about to go onto a learning curve now I have these very fabulous, low acidly balsamics. I'm fairly sure that most balsamic vinegars are 5% acidity or even more. The ones I have are 3% acidity, you can always add acidy later.

Some use balsamic with meat cookery, this I have yet to try.

I was in Waitrose today, a bit of an extension to my holiday because we don't have Waitrose where I live. Most, if not all the balsamics where Modina balsamic and none gave any idea of acidy levels or fruit content though I didn't have my reading specs so may have missed it.

Regarding growing tomatoes in a purpose built unit, well didn't I just start pencilling in plans to do just that. I have two plans neither of which I'm yet committed too and may yet be shelved whilst I try to grow then under netting with an alternate polythene cover though James Wong main taints it is sunlight quality rather than heat that tasty toms need.

i think it should be great and interesting .so just try it ..

If you want tasty tomatoes then do not over water them.

Barny

I was once schooled by a regular tomato grower who caught me trying to grow tomatoes for the first time, this very helpfull bloke had me flooding the pots every day with water and wo-betide me if I ever forgot a watering.

My tomatoe seedlings have failed, probably through neglect. Tomorrow Im On the hunt for four plants and I'll let you know what I ended up with when I end up with plants because right now I have to grow what I can get my hands on.

Amazing that those few tomatoe plants failed when last year and the year before I had plants growing out of the compost pile from seeds of discarded tomatoes.

This gardening lark isn't easy, I love it.